Quick Guide for Public Speaking

Quick Guide to Public Speaking
Preparations * Audience: The goal of public speaking is to gain a response from your listeners-to get them to think, feel, or act in a certain way. To reach the listeners, find out as much as you can about them( Age, gender, racial, ethnic background, religion, education level, attitudes towards you and the subject, how much they know about the subject) Adapt your speech to meet their needs and interests.

* Topic: Choose a topic that is interesting and about which you know a lot (either know or after doing research) Narrow the topic so that you can comfortably and adequately cover it within the time allotted.

* Purposes and central idea: Select a general purpose (to inform, to persuade, etc.), a specific purpose (a statement of exactly what you want to achieve with your audience) For example, suppose you want to inform your audience about fraud and abuse In the U.S. government’s student-aid program. You could create objectives such as these:

General purpose: To inform
Specific purpose: To tell my listeners what happens when some unscrupulous schools abuse the federal student-aid program.

Next ask yourself, “What is my essential message? What big idea do I want to leave in the mind of my listeners?” Your answer is your central idea. Here is one possibility:

Central idea: By manipulating the student-aid program, some schools cheat both tax payers and students. This central idea is what you want your listeners to remember if they forget everything else.

...COMM 1200 Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
Chapters 1-3, 5-8, 11 & 15
General Tips for Studying
• Use the questions in this guide as a prompt to your studying and outlining of the chapters, but do not assume that they are exhaustive. Material that is emphasized by your instructor may be used as multiple choice questions or short answer questions, even if it is not directly covered in your textbook or by this study guide.
• It is a good idea to outline chapters as you read, leaving room for questions, comments and notes alongside the outline, which you can add in lecture or while reviewing.
• If there is a list in a chapter, memorize it, and know which chapter it comes from.
• Make flashcards (or whatever technique works for you) for all vocabulary terms.
• Be able to apply the knowledge from your readings and class lectures to the activity of publicspeaking (that is, don’t just memorize, but be able to think critically).
Chapter 1: Introducing PublicSpeaking
• What are the four characteristics of publicspeaking?
• What is the historical tradition of publicspeaking?
• What are the main components of the transactional model of communication? How is this model different than the linear model?
• How does critical thinking influence publicspeaking?
• How does ethics influence...

...﻿The Importance of PublicSpeaking.
Publicspeaking can be defined as continuous formal presentation to an audience made by a presenter . Most of the time, people use publicspeaking to deliver vital messages to the public in proper way. As its name implies, it is a way of communication that will make our ideas public. Through publicspeaking, we share our ideas with people and it may influence people’s thoughts. Nowadays, many people around the world use publicspeaking to spread their ideas and influence such as Franklin Roosevelt, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, and Barack Obama. Although publicspeaking requires the same skills as used in normal conversation, publicspeaking and conversation is not identical. Publicspeaking involves talking in front of a group of people, usually with some preparation. It can be in front of people that you know or a crowd of strangers unlike normal conversation which does not requires preparation to talk.
Publicspeaking is important to everyone regardless what kind of job. Most people, at some point in their life, will need to stand up and speak in front of a group of people. According to Michael Osborn (2003), people seldom speak in...

...﻿PUBLICSPEAKING
INTRODUCTION
When we heard the word, ‘publicspeaking’, what came to mind is standing in front of a crowded room packed with people and talking to them. The image alone sometimes create an enormous effect on most people, causing nervousness, and maybe even fear. Before we jump to that, let’s look at the definition of the word itself.
According to Merriam Webster online dictionary, the words PublicSpeaking has a meaning of “the act or process of making speeches in public,” or “the art of effective oral communication with an audience.” Next, what is an audience? An audience is defined as “a group of listeners or spectators.” From the definitions, we can draw a conclusion that in publicspeaking, there is an act of both speaking and listening. So what differentiates publicspeaking from a conversation?
While both publicspeaking and conversation involves a direct and face-to-face encounter, usually publicspeaking is more of a ‘one-way’ talking. Although nowadays most speakers claim that they want an interactive session, but usually the audience is given a specific time to do so. Next, in terms of language, publicspeaking uses a formal language. Because they are speaking in front of a group...

...PublicSpeakingPublicspeaking is the process and act of speaking or giving a lecture to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain a listening audience. Publicspeaking is commonly understood as face-to-face speaking between individuals and an audience for the purpose of communication. It is closely allied to "presenting", although the latter is more often associated with commercial activity. Most of the time, Publicspeaking is to persuade the audience.
In publicspeaking, as in any form of communication, there are five basic elements, often expressed as "who is saying what to whom using what medium with what effects?" The purpose of publicspeaking can range from simply transmitting information, to motivating people to act, to simply telling a story. Good orators should be able to change the emotions of their listeners, not just inform them. Publicspeaking can also be considered a discourse community. Interpersonal communication and publicspeaking have several components that embrace such things as motivational speaking, leadership/personal development, business, customer service, large group communication, and mass communication....

...﻿PublicSpeaking Test 1
1. Publicspeaking: Publicspeaking is speaking to a group of people in a structured, deliberate manner intended to inform, influence, or entertain the listeners. ( is an oral presentation in which a speaker addresses an audience.)
2. rhetoric: Rhetoric is a technique of using language effectively and persuasively in spoken or written form.
3. extemporaneous: made up or done without special preparation
4. communication: is the phenomenon of conveying information and meaning through non-verbal, verbal, or written media.
5. encode: A message first ‘encoded’, that is transformed into an understandable sign and symbol system.Speaking is encoding, as are writing, printing, and filming a television program.
6. decode:Once recieved, the message is ‘decoded'; that is, the signs and symbols are interpreted. Decoding occurs through listening, reading, or watching that television show.
7. noise: Noise is any type of disruption that interferes with the transmission or interpretation of information from the sender to the receiver.
8. feedback: In communication studies, the response of an audience to a message or activity.
9. rhetorical purpose: attracting and seducing an audience, persuading them, and solving a problem.
10. specific purpose: defines your action in the speech, what you want to accomplish. The central idea is like a thesis statement in an essay; it...

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I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter: How many people in this room own or have owned an IPod, IPhone, or IPad? Isn’t astounding how one man’s vision and innovation gave us all devices that have made the world today more connected than it’s ever been? Devices we NOW can’t imagine leaving behind when we walk out the front door in the morning. Whether it’s listening to music in your bedroom, reading the news on the train ride to work, checking your email at home or even sitting in a waiting room watching Netflix. It’s hard to deny the influence and impact that Steve Jobs has had on modern culture.
B. Reason to Listen: My name is Eduardo Salazar and like many of you I too can’t live without technology and though my personal devices haven’t always been Apple products. More often than not if the device I was using wasn’t an apple product it was inspired by an apple device.
C. Thesis Statement: Today I will be talking about how Steve Jobs revolutionized the way the world uses and incorporates technology in their everyday lives and how it has impacted modern culture.
D. Credibility Statements:
1. Like many of you, technology plays a very important role in my life and sometimes I don’t even realize how much of a role it plays UNTIL I look back and notice that I don’t sit at a computer desk anymore typing my papers, I just flip open my macbook or how I don’t flip open my phone anymore to answer calls I just slide my finger across my IPhone screen
2. After doing extensive research...

...once you download the new one, you can simply delete the old version or store the old one in your Hard Disc Drive (HDD). HDD Space sold these days are equivalent to about on average of 1, 30,000 pagers of traditional book information per gigabyte costing less than a dollar. (Scootwhoman, wikiAnswer)
D. One more advantage of eBook over traditional book is the convenience of transport of information. If you order a traditional book though Amazon or other online sites, it takes about 5 to 12 business days for it to arrive in your hand. With an eBook, after the payment, all it takes is a click of a button to start accessing the information within minutes.
E. Modern eBook also contains more interactive audio visual content and online guides and easy access to the vast World Wide Web.
(Signpost: Now that I have told you about the advantages that eBook has over traditional ones, I’d also go over some factors that make traditional textbooks still widely used).
Hey I understand what going in your mind rights now… You have a question for me, don’t you?
If eBook has so many advantages over traditional textbook why is the older version still in wide practice?
The answer is as simple as the obvious question itself:
* It’s traditional.
Books were invented by the time this technology was non-existent so we had no choice.
* The world simply did not have an explosion of information and research. We did not have to think of deforestation and its impact...